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Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life,…
Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life, in and after a time of great mortality, by a wasting plague (anno 1665) answered in XIII directions / by Tho. Doolittle.Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life, in and after a time of great mortality, by a wasting plague (anno 1665) answered in XIII directions / by Tho. Doolitel.
London: printed by R.I. for J. Johnson, 1666
DIRECTIONS how to live after a wasting PLAGUE. › Part 4 › Section 16
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2. Instruct them frequently; They are apt to learn evil, but backward to learn any thing that is good: There must be Line upon Line, Deut. 6. 6, 7. You must whet the things you speak unto them, that they may pierce their hearts; frequently inculcate the same things upon them, and instil the knowledge of God into them by little and little.
2. Instruct them frequently; They are apt to learn evil, but backward to learn any thing that is good: There must be Line upon Line, Deut. 6. 6, 7. You must whet the things you speak unto them, that they may pierce their hearts; frequently inculcate the same things upon them, and instil the knowledg of God into them by little and little.
3. Instruct them affectionately; Let them perceive (when more grown up) that they are matters of Weight and Moment, that you speak to them about: When you speak of Heaven and Hell, of God and Sin, let them see that your hearts are affected with what you say.
1Secondly, In Correcting of them for the evil of Sin: He that spares the Rod spoils the Child: better you correct them here, than God damn them ⟨p. 202⟩hereafter: The Rod is as needful for your Children as their Food; Prov. 22.15. Folly is bound in the heart of a Child, the Rod of Correction shall drive it far from him. Do this,